Questions & Answers about نمایندهی حزب در این مناظره گوینده است.
How does the word gooyandeh (speaker) use the -ande suffix from this lesson?
It is built from the verb goftan (to say or speak). First, you take the present stem, which is gooy. Then, you add the agent noun suffix -ande to mean the person who does the action. Together, they make gooyandeh (speaker).
Is namayandeh (representative) also formed using the -ande suffix?
Yes! It comes from the formal verb nemoodan (to show or represent). The present stem is namay. Adding -ande creates namayandeh, meaning one who represents or a representative.
Why is there a ye (ی) attached to the end of namayandeh?
That is the Ezafe, which connects representative to party to mean representative of the party. Because namayandeh ends in a silent heh (ه), the Ezafe linking sound is pronounced -ye instead of -e. After a silent heh, we must write this sound using the letter ye (ی).
The English translation says is a speaker, but there is no word for a in the Farsi sentence. Why?
In Farsi, when you say what a person's role or category is (like being a speaker in a debate), you often do not need to use the word yek (a/one) or the indefinite suffix -i. The bare noun gooyandeh is enough to mean a speaker.